I have loved sports all my life, and baseball happens to be my favorite.

I have collected memorabilia all my life and this doesn’t seem to fit in to that model. It’s not a Griffey Jr. rookie card, or a trifold of Christy Matthewson, or the most notable collectable of all-time, Honus Wagner T206 tobacco card. It’s a game-worn jersey of arguably the best baseball player of all time.

There are so many things we speculate about the jersey and what Ruth may have been doing during that time. It all comes with the $4 million price tag. Some see it as an overpriced piece of clothing. I see it as something different. More than a piece of clothing or a collectible.

I see the jersey as a work of art. It’s something that cannot and will not be replicated. It is an artifact of an era featuring the legends of a far-gone time. A Babe Ruth game-worn jersey is like Picasso creating a masterpiece that only happens once in a century.